This research group held a roundtable on the theme Economic Valuation of the Standing Forest: New Perspectives for Human Resource Development at IEA on February 21st. The meeting brought together a group of guests who play an important role in the environmental,climatic and Amazonian issues in order to present and discuss the proposed development of a Rainforest Business School.

The group is dedicated to studies that give weight to the adoption of solutions consistent with sustainable development, and to analyses of topics such as strategic environmental assessment, water governance, climate change, risk prevention and management, health and environment, social inclusion × exclusion, energy × food, and environmental justice.

The group studies the following aspects of the urban environment: hegemonic urban settings and urban development in the periphery, the spatialization and stratification of identity, excluding social inclusion, the culture of scarcity, poverty, and consumerism.

The 'Fórum Permanente: Cultural System Between Public and Private Research Group' will continue the work that has been developed by Fórum Permanente in organizing events, critical texts, publications and other forms of production and circulation of knowledge related to the world of contemporary art. Read more...

The Observatory of Innovation and Competitiveness, which became USP’s Research Support Hub (NAP) in mid-2011, continued to develop EngenhariaData, a system of indicators that provides, in a single Web site, important historical information on engineering, including data on education, labor market and scientific production. Housed at the IEA, the Hub is connected to the Dean's Office for Research of the University of São Paulo.

The group held internal meetings from August to November, 2012, on issues related to aesthetics and literary criticism. Two professors from the Philosophy Department of USP's School of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences/FFLCH were invited to give lectures: Franklin Leopoldo e Silva, who spoke about Rousseau's confessional work, and Márcio Suzuki, who addressed Schiller's On Naive and Sentimental Poetry. Members of the group also gave lectures: professor Marta Kawano discussed the poetry of Gerard de Nerval, and professor Alípio Correia de Franca Neto talked about his translation of poems by Coleridge.

Alfredo Bosi (Coordinator)

The group is dedicated to discussing some key aspects of aesthetics, and of cultural and literary criticism: historicism, hermeneutics, phenomenology, critical theory and cultural studies.

The group is dedicated to the foundations of logic, mathematics and physics, mathematical aspects of paraconsistent systems, paraconsistent logics and artificial intelligence, and paraconsistent artificial neural networks and applications.

The talk is focused on the interplay between astrophysics and nuclear physics, which is called 'nuclear astrophysics'. Professor Pierre Descouvemont gives an introduction about the way stars are born and how different they evolve. It is shown that nuclear reactions play a central role in the star evolution: they produce the energy released by the stars, and determine the nucleosynthesis of heavy elements. April 22, 2013

The Unconventional Nuclear Astrophysics Research Group, led by astrophysicist Mahir Saleh Hussein, have resumed the project "Dynamics of Multibody Systems" (Fapesp). The third phase of the project will continue until January 31, 2016. Hussein explains that, among other purposes, the project aims to study nuclear astrophysics with exotic nuclei, quantum chaos, and both hybrid and single species of Bose-Einstein condensates in multiple traps, in particular the inter-relationship between mean-field effect and correlations of multiple bodies. Read more:Papers and Book

The group analyzes national programs and policies concerning nutrition and poverty in Brazil. Also seeks to bring together scholars and government experts to stimulate dialogue and integration between them.

Created in 2009, the Research Group on Philosophy, History and Sociology of Science and Culture revised its project in 2012, when it also organized the FAPESP theme project "Genesis and Meaning of Technoscience: On the Relationship between Science, Technology and Society." Visiting fellow Nicolas Lechopier, from Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France, worked with the group from October to December, holding two seminars and a roundtable. Read more...

At the moment at which Brazil celebrates 25 years of election cycles following the rules of constitutional alternation of power, the 'Quality of Democracy Research Group' proposes to think the Brazilian democratic regime from a qualitative perspective, noting that problems such as practices of abuse of power, corruption and deficiencies in the oversight of governments are still present. The group will conduct its activities based on the project ‘Brazil: 25 Years of Democracy - Critical Evaluation: Representation Institutions, Civil Society / Culture Politics and Public Policy‘, having as one of its main tools the blog Quality of Democracy, released in 2012.